Package-display apparatus.



F. WOKOUN.

PACKAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1912.

1,041,552. Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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F. WOKOUN.

PACKAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19, 1912.

Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH af/awagms FRANK woxoun, on NEW YORK, is. Y.

PACKAGE-DISPLAY APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (Bot. 15,1912.

Application filed. January 19, 1912. Serial No. 672,145.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Wo'rton'N, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Package-Display Apparatus, of which the followingis a clear, full, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved display device or apparatus and anovel arrangement of the same within a packed receptacle of goods,whereby it may be cheaply and conveniently shipped.

Heretofore whenever a merchant wished to make a display of goods in hiswindow, it was found expensive and impractical to actually pile up orarrange the goods themselves in the window, and the merchant usuallyresorted to the expedient of piling up groups of empty boxes or cartonswithin which the goods are usually contained and sold. This latterpractice although convenient to the merchant is expensive andtroublesome for the manufacturer and shipper of goods, since theshipping of empty packages or cartons is almost as much trouble andexpense as the shipping of full packages, which expense is a dead losssince it is not customary to charge merchants for these display devices.The manufacturers and shippers of goods as a matter of fact are quiteanxious to have their goods displayed and advertised by the smallermerchants, but nevertheless any saving and expense in the matter ofhandling and shipping these display devices is greatly appreciated bythe manufacturer.

The object of the present invention therefore is to provide a displaydevice which may be shipped along with a box of goods without taking upany appreciable room therein thus displacing the actual goods desired tobe shipped and yet which, when removed from the box of goods, can bearranged so as to represent a larger or smaller stack of goods as may bedesired.

In other words, by my invention, the manufacturer whenever he ships aconsign ment of goods to a smaller dealer may simply box up the goods inthe same way as before and include within the packed box of goods adisplay device which will be fully suiiicient for the merchants displaypurposes.

The objects above described may be accomplished in various ways andmodifications from that shown and described in the present application,but one preferred manner of carrying out my invention will be moreparticularly hereinafter described and clearly shown in the accompanyingdrawings in which Figure 1 is an end vertical section through areceptacle packed in accordance with the present invention along line 11Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through line 22 Fig. 1; Fig. 3 isa separate perspective view of one portion of the display apparatus;Fig. 4 is a separate perspective of another portion of the displayapparatus; Fig. 5 is a detached perspective of one of the packages orcartons of goods; and Fig. 6 is a view of the present display apparatusassembled.

For the purposes of describing one preferred form of my invention, Ihave illustrated in the drawings packages of merchandise which arecommonly put up and sold in cartons such as biscuits, macaroni, etc.,but it is obvious that the carrying out of my invention may be varied tosuit any of the desired ways of putting up merchandise whether inpackages, individual bundles or cans.

Referring to Fig. 1, I have shown a number of cartons 2 such as shown inFig. 5 packed snugly within a casing 1 which may be a wooden shippingcase of the usual form.

In the pr ferred embodiment my display apparatus consists of twoseparate parts, one part of which is in the form of a hollow body or anopen top box or box-form shell 3 shown in Fig. 3 and which is of suchshape and dimensions as to inclose a group of cartons such as 2 snuglywithin the same. The other part of my display apparatus consists of thehollow shell-like device 4 shown in Fig. 4, having stepped sides ofproper dimensions to coincide with two-sides of the cartons which are tobe packed. It will be obvious that cartons 2 may be packed about theoutside and inside of said stepped shell 4 to form a block of groupedcartons which may be boxed up and shipped as they stand or which may beinserted within the box-like shell 3 as shown in Fig. 1. It isimmaterial whether box 3 is deeper than shell 4, as the remaining spacewithin the shell 3 may be filled up with cartons of goods 2 to thedesired size for shipping as shown in Fig. 1. r

Fig. 1 shows in section the packed arrangement of goods and displayapparatus ready for shipment, and it is obvious thatwhen the merchantreceives his goods and removes the same from casing 1, he can assemblethe parts of the display apparatus in some such Way as shown in Fig. 6,and if desired place upon the pinnacle of the same a single loose carton2.

To fully carry out the display purposes of this arrangement the shells 3and a are divided at their ends into divisions 5 and 8 respectively, tosimulate the ends of the cartons 2. Moreover the sides of the shell 3are divided as shown in 7 to simulate the sides of the cartons 2. Thestepped sides of shell 4 themselves simulate the sides of cartons 2.Furthermore, if the cartons 2 are labeled upon their sides and ends asis usually the case, the divisions 5, 7 and 8 both on the ends and sidesof the display apparatus may be similarly labeled so that when thedisplay apparatus'is assembled as shown in Fig. 6 it simulates veryclosely a shell-form, receiving a portion of said packages t-herein,and'having a stepped Wall passing between the rows of packages.

2. A shipping parcel of box-form composed of a plurality of packagespiled in rows, and a display device for the same of shell-form,receiving a portion of said packages therein, and having a stepped wallpassing between the rows of packages, the steps of said wall being ofsubstantially the same linear dimensions as said packages.

Signed at New York city, N. Y. this 18th day of January 1912.

FRANKWOKOUN.

lVitnesses BEATRICE MIRVIS, A. BnRNsrniN.

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